Re: Licensing of old Debconf::Gettext module in dpkg

2023-03-06 Thread Nicolas François
Hi Guillem, GPL-2+ is fine for any of my modifications. Best Regards, — Nicolas On Mon, Mar 6, 2023 at 5:39 PM Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi Joey and Nicolas! > > Long time ago the Debconf::Gettext [O] module got imported into the dpkg > code base [I] with some modifications from Nicolas. The curr

Re: Removing long descriptions / english from Packages files

2009-08-13 Thread Nicolas François
Hello, On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:55:04AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Why not inject the english version in the Translation file for all missing > translations? That way you download only one Translation file and you have > the usual behaviour. And you can see programmatically that it's not

Re: [Debian-l10n-devel] Removing long descriptions / english from Packages files

2009-08-13 Thread Nicolas François
Hello, On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:23:23AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 11841 March 1977, Nicolas François wrote: > > >> which should be easy enough to output. When such an output file is > >> configured, the descriptions should no longer get written to the > >

Re: Removing long descriptions / english from Packages files

2009-08-12 Thread Nicolas François
Hi Jörg, (I'm adding dpkg. See the original mail there: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-l10n-devel/2009-August/000507.html) On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:47:46AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > [...] > It will also mean changes to apt-ftparchive, so lets get to the apt > maintainers: >

Re: Transition from dpkg to GNU install-info

2009-04-14 Thread Nicolas François
Hello Norbert, Sorry, I forgot to report my findings. On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 01:36:35PM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Mo, 16 Mär 2009, Nicolas François wrote: > > > I will try to review update-info-dir next week. > > That would be great, please use the version from

Re: Transition from dpkg to GNU install-info

2009-03-15 Thread Nicolas François
Hello Norbert, Sorry for not answering before and thanks a lot for your work on this topic. On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 06:49:53PM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: > > Time line: > - inform the maintainers of info-browsers about the fact that they > should now depend on install-info > - upload texin

Re: [SCM] dpkg's main repository branch, master, updated. 1.14.20-100-g4174eea

2008-07-06 Thread Nicolas François
Hello, On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 11:01:12AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > It looks like the only hard part would be finding the *.pot file with > which to msgmerge. msgmerge is not necessary. msgcat will take care of merging the two PO files. The final merge will be done by make update-po. Best

Re: Manual pages and POD format

2007-09-28 Thread Nicolas François
Hello, On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 07:16:49AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: > > I don't have much problem with roff manpages. Also if they are currently > considered not readable, that could be improved as well, as an > alternative. Something else to consider is the po4a interaction. I don't have much

Re: Plans for Lenny's install-info

2007-05-18 Thread Nicolas François
Hi again, On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:08:35AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all! > > On Die, 17 Apr 2007, Nicolas François wrote: > > + Changes in texinfo > >- the info package (or a new install-info package) replaces > > dpkg's install-info &

Re: Texinfo vs. Debian install-info

2007-05-18 Thread Nicolas François
Hi Norbert, Just two additional points for the record. On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 07:39:29AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Debian --section regexp title This option takes two arguments, which can be a pain for getopt. And this usage could be confusing. The GNU install-info can also accept tw

Re: Texinfo vs. Debian install-info

2007-05-18 Thread Nicolas François
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:48:48PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Karl, > > On Mit, 16 Mai 2007, Karl Berry wrote: > > To repeat what I told Norbert back when we were discussing this, I don't > > think a Perl implementation of install-info will work for GNU. > > AFAIUnderstand the perl woul

Re: Status of install-info

2007-05-18 Thread Nicolas François
Hello Ian, On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 12:41:38AM -0400, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > Well, I don't know if anyone is still interested in this since there was zero > response to my previous mails, but here's a python version. It actually runs > a little bit faster than the perl one. There are still int

Re: Plans for Lenny's install-info

2007-04-18 Thread Nicolas François
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 11:47:34AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Nathanael Nerode writes ("Re: Plans for Lenny's install-info"): > > Make it a new install-info package. All info viewers should depend on the > > package providing install-info and update-info-dir; 'info' isn't the only > > info viewe

Re: Plans for Lenny's install-info

2007-04-17 Thread Nicolas François
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 05:04:57PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Have you considered whether the new dpkg triggers feature currently > being discussed in another thread in debian-dpkg might be helpful ? > It's intended to be used for this kind of thing. Of course you may > prefer to press ahead w

Plans for Lenny's install-info

2007-04-17 Thread Nicolas François
[Initially sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], now forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, As promised, I'm bringing back this issue after the release of Etch. texinfo maintainer's CCed. Goals = * Replace dpkg's install-info by the GNU's install-info * Ease the recovery of a corrupted info dir fil

Re: dselect memory use

2007-02-08 Thread Nicolas François
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 10:04:14AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > > Is it possible to reduce the memory use of dselect? There are some patches by Michel Lespinasse on: http://bugs.debian.org/395140 Regards, -- Nekral -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Please review Policy change for ~ in versions

2006-11-06 Thread Nicolas François
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 09:11:06AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > --- orig/policy.sgml > +++ mod/policy.sgml > @@ -2716,7 +2716,13 @@ > sort earlier than all the non-letters and so that a tilde > sorts before anything, even the end of a part. For example, > the follo

Re: Dpkg testing framework, take 5 (was: Re: How are things going?)

2006-10-08 Thread Nicolas François
Hi Esteban, I had a look at the testsuite. It basically fulfill my requirements: * I'm able to read the results of the testsuite * I'm able to write tests Just a few things (not really related to the test environment, but more on the current tests) * can you mention the dependencies of the

Re: How are things going?

2006-09-27 Thread Nicolas François
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 04:23:00AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > BTW, with the changes to scripts/dpkg-architecture.pl, does something fix > the dpkglibdir and pkgdatadir paths when installing this script? Yes, the Makefile fixes all the dpkglibdir and pkgdatadir variables during the build. So

Re: How are things going?

2006-09-26 Thread Nicolas François
Hi, On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 03:53:06AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Christian Perrier wrote: > > There has also been, IIRC, some exchanges with Ian Jackson. Probably > > more could be done here. > > I'm rather worried that there's been no apparent progress on getting > Ian's Breaks support merged in

Re: Bug 208532: dpkg --forget-old-unavail does not work at all

2006-08-16 Thread Nicolas François
Hello, On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 11:02:38AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: > > Hi, I'd like to call attention to a specific bug which seems fairly > bite-size in nature, and has possibly gone unfixed only due to being > hidden amongst the many other bugs in the BTS > > URL: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-b

Re: install-info: multiple INFO-DIR-SECTIONs

2006-08-16 Thread Nicolas François
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 04:55:28PM -0700, Micah J. Cowan wrote: > (originally sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]; I gather that didn't go through). > > I notice that Mike Stone's bug regarding GNU's "new" multiple > dir-section format (#180127) has gone untouched for a very long time. > > In the meantime

Re: How to change encoding of localized man pages

2006-07-25 Thread Nicolas François
Hi, On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:08:30PM +0900, KISE Hiroshi wrote: > > I am trying update the translation of Japanese man pages. [...] > Please tell me how to change encoding Japanese man pages. > > 1. modify man/ja/Makefile.am only > 2. modify all man/po4a/*/*.cfg > 3. 1 and 2 > 4. others Only

Re: Breaks is going to be implemented

2006-06-26 Thread Nicolas François
Hi Ian, On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 05:28:34PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Are there any people with extensive outstanding patches to dpkg > including particularly dependency algorithm changes ? I ask because > the Breaks patch is likely to be quite large and I want to avoid > conflicts. Not my

Re: Status of install-info

2006-06-17 Thread Nicolas François
Hello, I'm keeping in CC the people who participated in the previous discussions: * GNU's install-info upstream bug-texinfo at gnu.org Karl Berry Eli Zaretskii * Debian's texinfo maintainer Norbert Preining * debhelper (dh_installinfo) maintainer Joey Hess * dpkg maintainers

Re: Using GNU's install-info in Debian instead of dpkg's install-info

2006-05-21 Thread Nicolas François
Hi, On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 07:50:22PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: > Hi Karl! > > On Son, 21 Mai 2006, Nicolas François wrote: > > > What I think has to be done for --section is: > > * detect if there are 2 arguments to the --section option > > * detect if

Re: Using GNU's install-info in Debian instead of dpkg's install-info

2006-05-21 Thread Nicolas François
Hello, Just to keep you informed, as every one seems to agree on using the GNU instal-info in Debian, the plan (discussed a little bit at DebConf) is to first patch install-info to support the dpkg's install-info options: i.e. mostly the --section and maybe --remove-exactly (maybe the behavior of

Re: Change in the po4a infrastructure for the dpkg manpages

2006-05-21 Thread Nicolas François
Hello, The patch has been committed (it's quite big, so you won't receive the notification for revision 338). I tested it by building the package with and without and comparing the content of the debian directory. Kind Regards, -- Nekral -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: Status of install-info

2006-05-19 Thread Nicolas François
Hello Ian, On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 10:14:17PM -0700, you wrote: > > Hello, > > I am also quite frustrated with the bugs in install-info and the > continuing fork. But I really don't like the GNU version either (it > seems to still do nothing about aligning the descriptions, for > instance), I

Re: Working on dpkg during Debconf

2006-05-03 Thread Nicolas François
Hi, On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:35:51AM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > > Maybe others could post here if and when they will be there and if they > would like to invest time in hacking on dpkg. I know I could also > extract this information from the particpants list on the debconf page, > but ch

Status of install-info

2006-04-30 Thread Nicolas François
Hello, dpkg's install-info has some bugs and limitations. There were plans to switch to the GNU's texinfo after Sarge. Do you think it can still be done? I started thinking about what would involve such a transition: * check what is missing/incompatible in GNU's install-info * contact info's m